Word: founds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They were understandably protective of their adolescent charges, but as it turned out, so were we. Atlanta correspondent Tim Roche, a veteran of school-violence stories in Conyers, Ga., and Pearl, Miss., was once again struck by how unguarded kids can be. Like the rest of us, he found himself "often protecting them from themselves" as he sifted through his notes...
Beyond tradecraft, there is the larger question of why we would want to concentrate on just one school. "Sometimes, in order to tell a really big story," answers senior editor and key team member Nancy Gibbs, "we've found that it's best to look at it in miniature--in this case to spend a lot of time in one school and try to figure out what pressures it faces, what is working, what isn't and what has really changed since last spring, when we all discovered how complicated high schools can be." Allowed to peel back the layers...
...They were, after all, following up on a call made by that legendary friend of law enforcement O.J. SIMPSON. Simpson had called police from girlfriend Christie Prody's Miami home seeking help for a friend he said had been on a two-day cocaine binge. When police arrived, they found Simpson alone and, according to their report, learned that he and Prody had been involved in a "verbal dispute." After issuing Simpson a brochure on domestic violence, as required by law in such situations, the policemen asked him to pose for a picture. The photo op was not viewed kindly...
Clark went on to found Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, creating three multibillion-dollar companies. (So far.) I learned about Veblen--and loads about Clark--in Michael Lewis' new book, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Norton; $25.95). It's a superb book and explains how engineers are the greatest creators of wealth in history and why Silicon Valley is the center of the universe (and how Clark came to be the center of the Valley). I tend to dislike most nonfiction, since so many writers approach their work as if they were doing the reader a favor...
Unlike other cancers, lung cancer is extremely hard to detect in its earliest, most treatable stages. Even so, about 20% of lung-cancer patients are found to have a tumor whose biological characteristics and small size give them a good chance of being cured if the malignant growth is surgically removed...